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‘There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of stature: ‘For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four But the Pentateuch is not the only part of the Bible that speaks clearly and unequivocally about giants, the later books of the Old Testament also give descriptions of these supermen. Their authors lived at different times and in different places, so they could not have communicated with each other. Nor could the giants, as theologists sometimes claim, have been interpolated into the texts later in order to symbolise evil. If these apologists looked at the texts more closely, they could see that the giants always appear when performing perfectly practical tasks—waging war and single combat, for example—but never when moral concepts or moral behaviour are under discussion. also recount that the first race created by the 'gods' before the Flood was a race of giants. They called two prominent giants Atlan (Atlas) and Theitani (Titan). Just like our ‘flying gods’, giants haunt the world of sagas, legends and sacred books, but they are never put on the same footing as the gods in any of these sources. One serious handicap kept the giants on the earth; they could not fly. Only when a giant is clearly defined as the offspring of a god is he taken along on a heavenly journey. The giants usually appear as the gods' humble and obedient servants, who carry out their tasks, until they are finally described as stupid brutish creatures and their in Nice, has made a serious study of giants. He definitely confirms that they once existed, and even those scholars who raise doubts sooner or later stumble over giants' graves, over menhirs, those vertical, roughly dressed stone blocks, which range up to 65ft in height, over dolmens, burial chambers built of massive stones, or other megalithic monuments, and last but not least over the of giants. Moses tells us in Genesis, 6:4: old, men of renown.' We get a graphic account in Numbers, 13:33: ‘And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.’ Deuteronomy, 3:11, even gives us details that allow us to make rough estimate of their physical cubits the breadth of it...' (The Hebraic cubit is about 1 ft 9 ins!) Besides, the documentation of giants is not confined to the Bible. The myths of the Mayas and Incas traces in literature are lost. A scholar as serious as Professor Denis Saurat, Director of the Centre International d'Etudes Francaise impossibility of explaining technical achievements such as the working and transport of gigantic stone